Gauteng health department to use mediators for lawsuits

It seems the Gauteng health department’s found a cure for the backlog of medical negligence lawsuits against it, amounting to millions of rands. Courtesy #DStv403is dealing with medical negligence lawsuits amounting to some R330-million as well as a backlog with these cases.Salma is a non-profit organisation that's already working on these cases and for free -- so far.

The department says it’s aware of organised groups using these unfortunate circumstances to try defraud it by lodging duplicate claims. The department is being assisted by the office of the premier and national department in this regard.Source

Medical negligence in Gauteng it looks like is a deliberate thing, which makes me think if, it's not time to re-evaluate the practitioners? Cause they are not assisting government to curb this challenge.

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